Order of Worship October 8, 2017

(See separate bulletins for 6:30 & 8:30 and for Praise Worship)

In today’s gospel reading, Jesus tells a parable of the vineyard, an image of Israel, the prophets’ mission, and Christ’s death. For Christians, the vineyard also speaks of God’s love poured out in the blood of Christ, given to us for the forgiveness of sin. Grafted onto Christ the vine at baptism, we are nourished with wine and bread, that we may share Christ’s sufferings and know the power of his resurrection.

TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH 508 Center Street

Ashland, Ohio 44805 phone 419-289-2126

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This bulletin contains the worship order and the red Evangelical Lutheran Worship in the pew racks contains liturgy in the front and hymns, listed in bold numbers, in the back.

LARGE PRINT BULLETINS of this service are available from the ushers. Our liturgy is taken from Setting Four, which begins on page 147.

+ + + Gathering + + +

The Holy Spirit calls us together as the people of God. GATHERING MUSIC Boundless Love - arr. Keith Christopher

Mark Koehler, piano

WELCOME AND ANNOUNCEMENTS *CONFESSION AND FORGIVENESS pg. 94 *Please stand, as able.

*GATHERING SONG All Creatures, W orship God Most High! ELW 835

Please turn and face the processional cross in the center aisle as it passes.

*GREETING

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all. And also with you.

SUNDAY MORNING 10:45 WORSHIP

October 8, 2017 - Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost

WELCOME TO TRINITY!

We are glad you are here at one of our four worship services this weekend, each centered around the same scriptures but with four different musical styles.

This bulletin contains information for one of the two 10:45 a.m. Sunday services, a festive setting in the sanctuary. Praise Worship is also being held in Jack’s Place, our newer fel-lowship hall. A separate bulletin lists the 6:30 p.m. Saturday night folk service and the 8:30 a.m. traditional service

We invite you to turn to pages 10 & 11 in this bulletin for helpful information for visitors and members alike, such as restrooms, child care and service participants.

Weekly announcement sheets are available at the doors or from a host or usher and are available online at www.trinityashland.org.

Sunday School classes for all ages are Sunday mornings at 9:30 a.m. See the hallway in-formation board or a Sunday School host for class listings and locations.

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*KYRIE Lord, Have Mercy pg. 147

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*CANTICLE OF PRAISE This is the Feast of Victory pg. 149

As the church year draws to a close we use “Worthy Is Christ” from the book of Revelation, as our song of praise. The hymn looks forward to the day when we shall gather at the throne of the Lamb to praise Christ’s holy name.

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*PRAYER OF THE DAY

Let us pray.

Beloved God, from you come all things that are good. Lead us by the inspiration of your Spirit to know those things that are right, and by your merciful guidance, help us to do them, through Jesus Christ, our Savior and Lord. Amen.

Please be seated

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God speaks to us in scripture reading, preaching and song FIRST READING Isaiah 5:1-7 Pew Bible, OT pg. 702

The word of the Lord. Thanks be to God. PSALM 80:7-15 Sung responsively - Tone 10

7Restore us, O | God of hosts; show the light of your countenance, and we | shall be saved. 8You have brought a vine | out of Egypt; you cast out the nations and | planted it. 9You prepared the | ground for it;

1Let me sing for my beloved my love-song concerning his vineyard: My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill. 2He dug it and cleared it of stones, and planted it with choice vines; he built a watchtower in the midst of it, and hewed out a wine vat in it; he expected it to yield grapes, but it yielded wild grapes. 3And now, inhabitants of Jerusalem and people of Judah, judge between me and my vineyard. 4What more was there to do for my vineyard that I have not done in it? When I expected it to yield grapes, why did it yield wild grapes?

5And now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will remove its hedge, and it shall be devoured; I will break down its wall, and it shall be trampled down. 6I will make it a waste; it shall not be pruned or hoed, and it shall be overgrown with briers and thorns; I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it. 7For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, and the people of Judah are his pleasant planting; he expected justice, but saw bloodshed; righteousness, but heard a cry!

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it took root and | filled the land. 10The mountains were covered | by its shadow and the towering cedar trees | by its boughs. 11You stretched out its tendrils | to the sea and its branches | to the river. 12Why have you broken | down its wall, so that all who pass by pluck | off its grapes? 13The wild boar of the forest has | ravaged it, and the beasts of the field have | grazed upon it. 14Turn now, O God of hosts, look down from heaven; behold and | tend this vine; preserve what your right | hand has planted. 15They burn it with | fire like rubbish; at the rebuke of your countenance | let them perish.

SECOND READING Philippians 3:4b-14 Pew Bible, NT pg. 211

[Paul writes:] 4bIf anyone else has reason to be confident in the flesh, I have more: 5circumcised on the eighth day, a member of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew born of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee; 6as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to righteousness under the law, blameless. 7Yet whatever gains I had, these I have come to regard as loss because of Christ. 8More than that, I regard everything as loss because of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suf-fered the loss of all things, and I regard them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ 9and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but one that comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God based on faith. 10I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the shar-ing of his sufferings by becoming like him in his death, 11if somehow I may attain the resurrection from the dead. 12Not that I have already obtained this or have already reached the goal; but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. 13Beloved, I do not consider that I have made it my own; but this one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, 14I press on toward the goal for the prize of the heavenly call of God in Christ Jesus.

The word of the Lord. Thanks be to God.

*GOSPEL ACCLAMATION Alleluia, Alleluia pg. 151

*GOSPEL Matthew 21:33-46 Pew Bible, NT pg. 24

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The holy gospel according to Matthew, the twenty-first chapter. Glory to you, O Lord.

[Jesus said to the people:] 33“Listen to another parable. There was a landowner who planted a vineyard, put a fence around it, dug a wine press in it, and built a watchtower. Then he leased it to tenants and went to another country. 34When the harvest time had come, he sent his slaves to the tenants to collect his produce. 35But the tenants seized his slaves and beat one, killed another, and stoned another. 36Again he sent other slaves, more than the first; and they treated them in the same way. 37Finally he sent his son to them, saying, ‘They will re-spect my son.’ 38But when the tenants saw the son, they said to themselves, ‘This is the heir; come, let us kill him and get his inheritance.’ 39So they seized him, threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him. 40Now when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?” 41They said to him, “He will put those wretches to a miserable death, and lease the vineyard to other tenants who will give him the produce at the har-vest time.”

42Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the scriptures: ‘The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; this was the Lord’s doing, and it is amazing in our eyes’? 43Therefore I tell you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people that produces

the fruits of the kingdom. 44The one who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces; and it will crush anyone on whom it falls.”

45When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they realized that he was speaking about them. 46They wanted to arrest him, but they feared the crowds, because they regarded him as a prophet.

The gospel of the Lord. Praise to you, O Christ.

Please be seated

SERMON WHAT WORSHIPERS NEED TO KNOW Dennis Steele HYMN OF THE DAY There in God’s Garden ELW 342

Stanza 1 - All Stanza 4 - Choir Stanza 2 - Women/Children Stanza 5 - All Stanza 3 - Men Stanza 6 - All *APOSTLES’ CREED

God has made us his people through our baptism into Christ. Living together in trust and hope, let us confess our faith.

I believe in God, the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth.

I believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord. He was conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary. He suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried. He descended into hell. On the third day he rose again. He ascended into heaven,

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and is seated at the right hand of the Father. He will come again to judge the living and the dead.

I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. Amen.

*PRAYERS OF INTERCESSION

After each portion of the prayers:

Lord, in your mercy, hear our prayer.

Please be seated

OFFERING I Love Thee, My Lord - arr. George Shearing

Mark Koehler, piano *CANTICLE OF THANKSGIVING Jesus Loves Me! ELW 595

Please stand and sing this traditional response as the offering is presented.

*THANKSGIVING FOR THE WORD pg. 220

Luther held that the Word and Sacraments were central in our worship. On Sundays when we do not celebrate the Sacrament of Communion, we thank God for the gift of the Word which we have received.

The prayers conclude either: or:

For your Word of life, O God, ...be honor and glory forever. wegive you thanks and praise. Amen.

*LORD’S PRAYER

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever and ever. Amen.

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God blesses us and sends us in mission to the world.

*BLESSING *SENDING SONG The Church of Christ in Every Age ELW 729

Please turn and face the processional cross in the center aisle as it passes.

*DISMISSAL

Go in peace. Serve the Lord. Thanks be to God. *PASSING OF THE PEACE

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SANCTUARY ALTAR FLOWERS this weekend are given by: > Cris and Barb Harding in memory of loved ones,

> Peg and Chuck Snyder in memory of their son, Charles, Jr. on his 41st birthday,

> Mary and Dave Lewis in loving memory of Joe and Pauline Lewis. 10:45 RADIO BROADCAST on WNCO-AM 1340 is sponsored in loving memory of their daughter Alexa Rose Conery, and brother, Dr. Steven W. Rose, by John and Kathy Conery and family. COPYRIGHT: Liturgy from Sundays and Seasons.com. Copyright 2016 Augsburg Fortress. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission under Augsburg Fortress Liturgies Annual License #26213. Texts from New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

WELCOME TO WORSHIP! For directions or help with special needs, just ask a host or usher.

For those with young children - DIAPER CHANGING AREAS - in the Infant Nursery, Gathering Space, and North Office Hallway men’s and women’s restrooms on the first floor and in the Bride’s Room on the lower level under the narthex - CHILD CARE for children up to age four - Nursery area - WORSHIP ACTIVITY NOTEBOOKS for younger & older children - at the entrances

For older adults and those with special needs - LARGE PRINT WORSHIP BOOKS & BULLETINS for the 8:30 and 10:45 Sanctuary services - PERSONAL EARPHONES for the hearing impaired for use in the Sanctuary - Ushers’ Stand - HANDICAPPED-ACCESSIBLE RESTROOMS - Gathering Space, North and West Office hallways - WHEELCHAIRS available - Gathering Space, Kitchen area - HANDICAPPED PARKING - near Worship entrances - COURTESY PARKING - available for the 10:45 a.m. services

For more information - WEEKLY ANNOUNCEMENTS - available from the host families and ushers - TOUR OUR CHURCH - please speak with a pastor following worship - PAST SERMONS on the web - visit www.trinityashland.org

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PARTICIPATING IN OUR SERVICES: OCTOBER 7 & 8

6:30 P.M. SATURDAY FOLK SERVICE

HOSTS Tony and Chris Box, Jason and Nikki Miller, Elleni LECTOR Stan Miller

VIDEO Diane Emser, Steve Chereson SOUND Phil Vermillion

8:30 A.M. SUNDAY WORSHIP HOSTS Stephanie Bragg

LECTOR Jane Burns

ACOLYTE Luke Jurjevic

USHERS Jeff Witmer, Larry Franks (Team 2)

CHILD CARE Kathryn Tooman

SOUND Glenn Rausch 9:30 A.M. SUNDAY SCHOOL

HOST Brian Hickey

INFANT NURSERY Cindy Duffey 10:45 A.M. SUNDAY WORSHIP

HOSTS Bill and Carol Poeppelman

USHERS John Ferguson, Steve Purvis (Team 2)

ASSISTING PASTOR Stan Kopp

ACOLYTE Luke Denbow

CRUCIFER Brenden Aebersold

LECTOR Rev. Patti Abel

CHILD CARE (Infant) Supervisor - Cindy Duffey (Toddler) Supervisor - Buffi Forbes

SOUND Glenn Rausch

RADIO Al Lawrence

10:45 A.M. SUNDAY PRAISE WORSHIP / Worship Center at Jack’s Place

HOSTS Jared and Jack Smeltzer, Paul Keske LECTOR Elsie Kral

VIDEO Stacy Prochazka

SOUND Chris Vanderzyden

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Trinity Youth Rake & Run

Sunday, Nov 5, 1:30-4:30pm

The leaves are already beginning to turn which means one thing… It’s only a matter of time before they start to fall. It is a long standing tradition that each year during the fall, Trinity kids volunteer an afternoon to serve our older church members in getting their yards ready for winter. So if you, or someone you know, could use help raking, cleaning windows, or other fall chores, please return this form to the church office. Our Rake & Run coordinators will be in touch. Name: _____________________________________Phone:_______________ Address: ___________________________________________________________ What chores do you need done?